"J-just because it works?"
"Of course."
Shen Tang was more curious about how Gongyi had come up with the idea.
"Gongyi, what made you suddenly... think of this?"
Luan Xin replied, "I saw someone do it."
Actually, he'd been fretting over this for days, but couldn't bring himself to bother his lord. She'd been working from dawn till dusk lately, and he couldn't bear to make her worry herself sick over this, too. Then His Highness Yuan had given him an idea. More precisely, it was His Highness Yuan's new friend who'd given him the idea.
"You saw someone do it? Who?"
"It was my young friend, Gongyang."
Shen Tang: "..."
She knew that surname very well, but where had this young friend come from?
Considering how old that old geezer Gongyang Yongye was, there was no way Gongyi would call him "young friend." Shen Tang didn't bother calculating it on her fingers. "Gongyang? One of Gongyang Yongye's clansmen? Isn't he..."
She'd been about to say that Gongyang Yongye had no descendants.
But then she remembered that the old geezer had received something from Jimò Qiu. In theory, he could have children.
So...
Was this young friend Gongyang actually his child?
Shen Tang asked with her eyes, and Luan Xin nodded. "Yes."
"When did this happen?"
Luan Xin replied, "Not long after His Highness Yuan was born."
There'd only been a few days between the two.
Shen Tang: "..."
And it wasn't just Shen Tang who was shocked. Everyone else was even more astonished.
Luo Sha still remembered what had happened that day.
Gongyang Yongye had asked him to find an Xinglin Physician with a steady hand. Luo Sha had assumed Gongyang Yongye had suffered an internal injury he didn't want anyone to know about, so he'd quietly found one